Stronghold

The Stronghold System are the proud volunteer founders & CEO of The Plural Association Nonprofit. They are from the Netherlands and reside in a 30-something-year-old body, are nonbinary, parents of an amazing child & 3 cats. They got diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder over 10 years ago & also self ID as Plural.

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10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

2 Comments / 2021, Informative & educational, Professionals /

In 1994, when MPD was erased and DID came in its place, the ”inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness” criteria was added to the DSM-4. Later in 2013, this was changed to ”recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information and/or traumatic […]

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We are Plural. No harm is done by our existance, but much harm is done by denying it.

Plurals, learn more about mixed origin Systems & Headmates!

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Some people seem to think that either all mixed origins have DID/OSDD and another forms of Plurality, or the opposite, that mixed origins Systems are Plural but don’t have or can’t have DID/OSDD. Both can be true and personally we think it is a lot more fluid as one might imagine, especially if we look at the…

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guidelines for alters

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In ”Ask Stronghold” the Stronghold System, founders of The Plural Association Nonprofit and this Power to the Plurals website – shares their own answers to frequently asked questions, from a peer perspective. Todays question is ”How do we set guidelines for Alters in our System?” Setting guidelines for your System is one of the most

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Узнайте своих альтеров поближе с этим списком вопросов! – Замечательные бесплатные материалы!

1 Comment / 2020, Articles in other languages /

Thank you Anna from the Solipschism System for translating this into Russian! Этот список вопросов для людей определяющих себя как множественная личность или имеющих диссоциативное расстройство личности, которые хотят узнать поближе своих альтеров и настроить с ними внутреннюю коммуникацию. Его цель помочь вам улучшить взаимопонимание, принятие, и всячески настроить обоюдное общение и сотрудничество в вашей

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Image showing that personhood can only be claimed under the Plurality label and isn't allowed under the medical model as presented by the ISSTD treatment guidelines for DID and the DSM-5.

Personhood: Are you more than 1 person? You might be Plural! When Parts turn out to be People.

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Personhood or Personshood This article is about personhood and has the intent to explain more about the above picture and the plural umbrella. It has the intention to show that we are all more similar rather than different. The only real difference is that when you strictly follow the medical model, you can technically not

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Nonprofit The Plural Association is now an amazing reality!

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Nonprofit and plural history was written on February fifth 2020 when we signed the paperwork at the notary and became a nonprofit ‘by plurals, for plurals’It’s called The Plural Association Stichting, which is the Dutch word for nonprofit. To celebrate the start of the nonprofit we launched the new site: www.thepluralassociation.org  So, please invite a

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Für dissoziativer Identitätsstörung – FREIE tolle ressource “Lerne dein System mit dieser Liste besser kennen!”

6 Comments / 2019, Articles in other languages, Uncategorized /

Find English, French, Dutch and Spanish translation by clicking this hyperlink. Erfahren Sie mehr zu diesem Thema auf dieser deutschen Website von JARVIS German: Diese Liste ist für Plurals gedacht, also Menschen, die Viele sind, und Leute mit dissoziativer Identitätsstörung, die mehr über ihr System wissen und enger mit ihm verbunden sein möchten. Sie ist

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